Meaning
to clone, duplicate illegally
- to illegally duplicate electronic data, especially credit cards or SIMs
- to replicate an organism or DNA sequence biologically
In a sentence
Mi hanno clonato la carta di credito mentre ero in vacanza all'estero.
My credit card was cloned while I was on holiday abroad.
Hacker esperti sono riusciti a clonare l'account aziendale in pochi minuti.
Expert hackers managed to clone the corporate account in a few minutes.
Gli scienziati hanno clonato con successo una nuova specie vegetale.
Scientists have successfully cloned a new plant species.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| clonare | infinitive |
| clono | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| cloni | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| clona | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| cloniamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| clonate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| clonano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| clonavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| clonavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| clonava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| clonavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| clonavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| clonavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| clonai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| clonasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| clonò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| clonammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| clonaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| clonarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| clonerò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| clonerai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| clonerà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| cloneremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| clonerete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| cloneranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| cloni | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| cloni | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| cloni | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| cloniamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| cloniate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| clonino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| clonassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| clonassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| clonasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| clonassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| clonaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| clonassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| clonerei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| cloneresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| clonerebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| cloneremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| clonereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| clonerebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| clona | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| cloniamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| clonate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| clonando | gerund |
| clonato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- In modern daily speech, heavily used for banking fraud ('clonare una carta').